Scott Lucas ran this poll around September 1997. He asked where each member of the mailing list lived.

"IS THIS WHERE YOU LIVE?"

I received 177 responses to the demographics poll, a number that includes both those who wrote to me directly and a few who posted to the full list. Using only the most advanced technological methods (i.e., I read your message and wrote down your location on a piece of paper), I came up with the following demographic breakdown.

I've divided the larger geographcial areas into the following categories: Africa, Australia/New Zealand, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America. I have then divided these regions into
subregions. I list them all in alphabetical order, except for North America, which I will include in a separate message because its list of members was by far the lengthiest.

Now, here is a more detailed breakdown, listing members by smaller geographical areas. I listed people only by the location they sent me: therefore, there are some that I list by town or city; some by state, shire or province; and some by country only. Thus, while I know that Sydney is in New South Wales, I listed those who identified their location as specifically Sydney separately from those who told me only the more general "New South Wales" as their location.

Finally, most place names listed here are spelled according to American conventions, because those are the ones I'm familiar with (e.g., I spell "Brazil" with a "z" rather than an "s").

Here, then is the Seance demographic breakdown for the world, excluding
North America.

This installment covers the geographic distribution of North
American subscribers--namely, those in Canada and the U.S. (no one in
Mexico or Central America wrote in to me). Again, I have divided up the
larger geographical areas into smaller regions. I list Canadians by
province and then by more specific areas, and I list American listmembers
by one of six regions of the U.S., then by state, then by city, town, or
other designation.

As I did with my last post, I'll mention a couple of my
methodological choices. First, some members wrote in with a town/city
name, and some just with the name of their state or province. I listed
your location just as you told me--if you mentioned just a province or
state, I put you in the "[general]" category as I did with others on the
first post. Second, I divided up the U.S. into regions that are more or
less recognizable to U.S. residents, even if their boundaries are often
matters of dispute. In dividing states up, I just used my general sense
of things: thus, while I have a friend who insists that Washington, DC,
is a "Southeastern" city, I tend to think of it as "Mid-Atlantic," and so
I put it there. Similarly, I tend to think of Oklahoma as a Southwestern
state, while others may think of it as in the Midwest.

Here is the larger geographic breakdown:

CANADA: 5
U.S. 126

The U.S. is further broken up into these regions (listed, in homage
to the song of the same name, in the general order of "North, South,
East, and West")